Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Recovery from depressive symptoms, state anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder in women exposed to physical and psychological, but not to psychological intimate partner violence alone: A longitudinal study | Blasco-Ros et al. BMC Psychiatry 2010 10 98 http 1471-244X 10 98 BMC Psychiatry RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Recovery from depressive symptoms state anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder in women exposed to physical and psychological but not to psychological intimate partner violence alone A longitudinal study Concepcion Blasco-Ros Segunda Sanchez-Lorente Manuela Martinez Abstract Background It is well established that intimate male partner violence IPV has a high impact on women s mental health. It is necessary to further investigate this impact longitudinally to assess the factors that contribute to its recovery or deterioration. The objective of this study was to assess the course of depressive anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder PTSD symptoms and suicidal behavior over a three-year follow-up in female victims of IPV. Methods Women n 91 who participated in our previous cross-sectional study and who had been either physically psychologically n 33 or psychologically abused n 23 by their male partners were evaluated three years later. A nonabused control group of women n 35 was included for comparison. Information about mental health status and lifestyle variables was obtained through face-to-face structured interviews. Results Results of the follow-up study indicated that while women exposed to physical psychological IPV recovered their mental health status with a significant decrease in depressive anxiety and PTSD symptoms no recovery occurred in women exposed to psychological IPV alone. The evolution of IPV was also different while it continued across both time points in of psychologically abused women it continued in only of physically psychologically abused women while it was reduced to psychological IPV in . Hierarchical multiple regression analyses indicated that cessation of physical IPV and perceived social support contributed to mental health recovery while a high perception of lifetime events predicted .
